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Mental Health Act is a stock short title used for legislation in the United Kingdom relating to Mental health law.
The Bill for an Act with this short title may have been known as a Mental Health Bill during its passage through Parliament.
India[]
- The Mental Health Act, 1987
New Zealand[]
- The Mental health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 1992
Republic of Ireland[]
- The Mental Health Act 2001
United Kingdom[]
- The Mental Health Act 1959 (c. 72)
- The Mental Health (Amendment) Act 1982 (c. 51)
- The Mental Health Act 1983, an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
- The Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984, an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
- The Mental Health (Detention) (Scotland) Act 1991 (c. 47)
- The Mental Health (Amendment) Act 1994 (c. 6)
- The Mental Health (Patients in the Community) Act 1995 (c. 52)
- The Mental Health (Public Safety and Appeals) (Scotland) Act 1999 (asp 1)
- The Mental Health (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 1999 (c. 32)
- The Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003, an Act of the Scottish Parliament
- The Mental Health Act 2007, an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
- The Mental Health (Wales) Measure 2010 (nawm 7)
- The Mental Health (Discrimination) Act 2013 (c. 8)
United States[]
- The National Mental Health Act of 1946, which called for the establishment of a National Institute of Mental Health
- The Community Mental Health Act, created by John F. Kennedy in 1963 as part of his New Frontier
- The Mental Health Parity Act of 1996
See also[]
Mental health law in the United Kingdom | |
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18th century |
Madhouses Act 1774 |
19th century |
Criminal Lunatics Act 1800 · County Asylums Act 1808 · Marriage of Lunatics Act 1811 · Scottish Madhouses Act 1815 · Criminal Lunatics Amendment Act 1815 · Irish Lunatic Asylums for the Poor Act 1817 · Pauper Lunatics Act 1819 · County Asylums Act 1828 · Madhouses Act 1828 · Chancery Lunatics Property Act 1828 · Madhouses Act 1832 · County Asylums Act 1845 · Lunacy Act 1845 · Idiots Act 1886 · Lunacy (Vacating of Seats) Act 1886 |
20th century |
Mental Treatment Act 1930 · Mental Health Act 1959 · Mental Health Act 1983 |
21st century | |
Public bodies |
Lunacy Commission · Board of Control for Lunacy and Mental Deficiency · Mental Health Review Tribunal (England and Wales) |
Other |
Diminished responsibility in English law · Fixated Threat Assessment Centre · UK Mental health acts |